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Archaeology, science-based archaeology and the Mediterranean Bronze Age metals trade [PDF]

, 2000
Archaeologists often seem either sceptical of science-based archaeology or baffled by its results. The underpinnings of science-based archaeology may conflict with social or behavioural factors unsuited to quantification and grouping procedures.
Knapp, A.B.
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The Future is Now: Archaeology and the Eradication of Anti-Blackness

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2020
Building a new anti-racist archaeology will require an unprecedented level of structural changes in the practices, demographics, and power relations of archaeology.
M. Franklin, Justin P. Dunnavant, A. Flewellen, Alicia Odewale   +3 more
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Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2021
Over the past decade, niche construction theory (NCT) has been one of the fastest-growing theories or scholarly approaches in the social sciences, especially within archaeology.
R. Spengler
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Archaeology and Modern Architecture: A Comparative Reading [PDF]

Athens Journal of Architecture
This essay explores the relationship between archaeology and modern architecture, moving beyond the conventional examination of modern archaeology to examine the role of archaeology in a modern context.
Gregorio Froio
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A deep-learning model for predictive archaeology and archaeological community detection

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Deep learning is a powerful tool for exploring large datasets and discovering new patterns. This work presents an account of a metric learning-based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to an archaeological dataset. The proposed account speaks
Abraham Resler, Reuven Yeshurun, F. Natalio, R. Giryes   +3 more
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Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind [PDF]

, 2019
Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Edited by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A.
Coolidge, Frederick Lawrence, Overmann, Karenleigh Anne   +1 more
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The serialized past: archaeology news online [PDF]

, 2016
Maintaining the public’s interest in the past has long been a major concern among archaeologists, and practitioners since Mortimer Wheeler have appreciated the value of reporting their finds through mass media outlets (Moshenska and Schadla-Hall 2011 ...
Maldonado, Adrian
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In‐vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract With the development of dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), there has been an increasing application of DMTA for dietary estimation in extant and fossil reptiles, including dinosaurs. While numerous feeding experiments exist for herbivorous mammals, knowledge remains limited for carnivorous reptiles. This study aimed to qualitatively and
K. Usami, M. O. Kubo
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Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]

, 2013
Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts.
Bassett, Alecia
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Archaeological possibilities for feminist theories of transition and transformation

, 2008
Archaeology takes up material fragments from distant andrecent pasts to create narratives of personal and collective identity. It is, therefore, a powerful voice shaping our current and future social worlds.
Marshall, Yvonne
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